Scholarship details
Currently closed for applications
Applications are invited for Six PhD Fellowships within the framework of HEART – Health related Activity Recognition system based on IoT – a project initiated by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research & innovation program. The HEART research program aims for a personalized approach to mobile health coaching programs that involve the user and that are tailored to individual needs.
The University of Macerata (UNIMC), founded in 1290, is the only university in Italy that focuses exclusively on Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities (SSH). The following PhD students (also indicated as ESR, Early Stage Researchers) will collaborate within the HEART ITN research program:
4 PhD students in Information & Communication Technology (ICT)
1 PhD student in legal studies
1 PhD student in the international business domain.
ESR1 – Health Behavior Analytics on Heterogeneous Data
ESR2 – Scalability of data analytics
ESR3 – Scalability of data processing
ESR4 – Privacy and security analytics
ESR5 – Privacy by design and by research. The legal issues from conceptualization to commercialization
ESR6 – Understanding China: from customers’ needs to market penetration.
All international students are eligible to apply for this programme. Before applying, there are some requirements that should be accomplished in order for students to be accepted. The applicants must have Master degree or equivalent providing access to PhD programs.
English Language Requirements
English proficiency must be attested either through a previous English language diploma, or an internationally recognized proficiency test (at least C1 level of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages i.e. IELTS, IBT, TOEFL or Cambridge)
Fellowship application deadline is October 14, 2017.